Flip or Flop

Flip or Flop
Genre Reality television
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Release
Original network HGTV
Original release April 16, 2013 (2013-04-16) – present
External links
Website

Flip or Flop is a television series airing on HGTV hosted by real estate agents and real-life husband and wife Tarek El Moussa and Christina El Moussa.[1] On August 25, 2016 the special five episode summer season, called Flip or Flop: Selling Summer, premiered with the highest rating of any cable show that night.[2]

Premise

Christina and Tarek El Moussa

The Moussas were both real estate agents prior to the crash in 2008, and later began flipping homes, mostly located in Orange County, California.[3][4]

One day in 2011, Tarek asked a friend to help him make an audition tape for HGTV. The friend filmed an entire episode of the process of house flipping from start to finish. The audition tape was sent to HGTV and they were interested in talking to the couple. In 2012, HGTV signed the couple to a regular weekly program that shows the process of buying distressed property and renovating it.[5]

Christina's real estate expertise is primarily in design and she works with Tarek to find and renovate homes. She handles the designs of the new spaces and keeps everything on schedule. The show follows them as they buy homes, typically bank-owned, short sales, or foreclosures to renovate and resell.[6]

Hosts

Personal life

Christina was born in Anaheim, California and grew up in Anaheim Hills. She began working in the real estate industry right after college, where she met her husband, Tarek El Moussa, who earned his real estate license at age 21.[7] The couple was selling real estate in the southern California area[8] when the housing market plummeted after the October 2008 stock market crash, they went from living in a $6,000 per month home to a $700 per month apartment.[9]

Tarek and Christina married in 2009 and have two children, a girl named Taylor and a boy named Brayden.[10]

In 2013, a registered nurse and viewer of the show contacted the network after seeing a lump on Tarek's neck during a Flip or Flop marathon. Tarek had previously had the lump examined, and told there was no issue, but after the nurse, Ryan Reade, contacted producers, Tarek had the lump checked again; doctors discovered that he had stage 2 thyroid cancer. [11] The El Moussas thanked the fan, in a video that can be seen on HGTV.com. [12]

Real estate career

Today the couple runs a real-estate agency, The El Moussa Group in Orange County, California, an area with one of the largest foreclosure rates in the country.[13] Tarek, Christina and their partner, Pete De Best, bought their first investment house in Santa Ana for $115,000. After selling the property for a profit of $34,000, the trio split the money and continued to flip houses, expanding their real estate investing business into Arizona and Nevada.[14]

Series overview

Season Episodes Originally aired
Season premiere Season finale
1 13 April 16, 2013 May 28, 2013
2 14 April 8, 2014 July 8, 2014
3 15 October 7, 2014 July 7, 2015
4 14 December 3, 2015 March 24, 2016
5 8 June 9, 2016 July 28, 2016
6 5 August 25, 2016 September 22, 2016
7 TBD December 1, 2016[2]
Season Episodes Originally aired
Season premiere Season finale
1 6 July 21, 2015 August 18, 2015

Spin-off

Flip or Flop Follow-Up premiered July 14, 2015.[15] The show revisits old house flips from previous episodes. The series goes deeper into the issues with the individual flips, and shows previously unaired footage. The series also updates on houses that remained unsold at the time of the original production. These three stories including a successful flip, a flop and a follow-up that ends with Tarek and Christina revisiting one of their house flips.[16]

References

  1. ↑ Lewis, Raha (September 10, 2013). "Flip or Flop Host Tarek El Moussa Battling Thyroid Cancer". People. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Flip or Flop is returning with season 7 in Winter 2016".
  3. ↑ "Is HGTV's "Flip or Flop" real?". Webuyuglyhouses.com. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Tarek and Christina Buy Houses". tcbuyhouses. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Tarek & Christina El Moussa Make The Decision To 'Flip Or Flop'". MyFoxLA.com. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Local couple star in HGTV reality show on flipping houses". ocregister.com. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Tarek El Moussa profile". HGTV.com. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Flip or Flop: Tarek and Christina El Moussa". youtube.com. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  9. ↑ "A Peek Behind At Flip Or Flop". Circa Design.
  10. ↑ "Tarek and Christina El Moussa Welcome a Baby Boy".
  11. ↑ "How HGTV star Tarek El Moussa's cancer, spotted by fan, changed his life". People.com. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
  12. ↑ "Tarek Thanks A Life-Saving Fan".
  13. ↑ "LOS ANGELES FORECLOSURE ACTIVITY DOWN 18 PERCENT IN FEBRUARY | Newsroom and Media Center". Realtytrac.com. 2008-03-28. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  14. ↑ "Local couple star in HGTV reality show on flipping houses". The Orange County Register. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Flip or Flop Follow-Up Season 1: Amazon Digital Services , Inc". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  16. ↑ "Flip or Flop Follow-Up". HGTV. Retrieved 2015-11-24.

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